Reply #53: Reading the stories the accident had nothing to do with the gun [View All]

[RamboLiberal]

jamming.

It was a multiple fail on the part of the father who let an 8 year old sign up to fire this gun. The idiot who put on the show & the club who allowed children to participate. The 15 year old who should've never been in charge as a range officer. And the fact that the 8 year old who I do not blame but who had his finger on the trigger as the stock slipped from his shoulder and the 15 year old RO wasn't close enough to the kid to prevent the accident. An RO should've had a hand on the weapon at all times as the kid shot it. Better yet a kid of that age should've never been shooting that gun.

I've done some RO work as an adult and hell I wouldn't have wanted to be supervising new adult shooters on this type of weapon with multiple shooters and full auto guns on that firing line.

From what I've seen of these types of machine gun shoots on TV I've always expected they were an accident waiting to happen.